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‘The Last of Us’ Composer Gustavo Santaolalla Explains Why Its Score Is So Sparse · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: When Max's hit post apocalyptic show The Last of Us
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Speaker 2: picked up its twenty four nods, one of those was
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Speaker 2: Best Score for episode three, specifically Long Long Time, that
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Speaker 2: focuses on two side characters, Bill and Frank, with a
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Speaker 2: beautiful musical composition supplied by two time Oscar winning songsmith
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Speaker 2: Gustavo sent to Olaya. One of those Oscars was for
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Speaker 2: Broke Back Mountain, and if you listen closely to his
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Speaker 2: score for that film and the nominated Last of Us
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Speaker 2: episode about Bill and Frank, you'll notice both pieces of
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Speaker 2: music are incredibly sparse. He tells the ap Bill is
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Speaker 2: a guy that has been trapped inside of himself for years,
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Speaker 2: so there's already a silence to those characters. Silence sometimes
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Speaker 2: can beat louder than the note. The silence works great
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Speaker 2: in both of those cases because the characters are not
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Speaker 2: very talkative. Fun fact, Gustavo was also responsible for the
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Speaker 2: music in the video game the show is based on,
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Speaker 2: and was excited to return to revisit its story, music
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Speaker 2: and characters. The Last of Us is
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Speaker 1: On Max that's direct from Hollywood,